The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

HISTORY OF DORCHESTER. 265
This settlement has furnished Georgia with two
governors; two of its most distinguished judges;
the Theological Seminary of South Carolina and
Georgia with an able professor; the Methodist Episcopal Church with an influential and pious bishop;
the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches of that State
with many of their ablest and most useful ministers;
and six of her sons have been called to professorial
chairs in collegiate institutions.
Their minister, Mr. Osgood, died in August, 1773,
and different persons officiated for them until 1777,
when Mr. Moses Allen, of Northampton, Mass., was
settled. He was taken prisoner by the British in
1778, and confined several months in their prison
ships. Being a true patriot, and wearied with confinement, he attempted to regain his liberty by throwing himself into the river in order to swim to an
adjacent point, but was drowned in the attempt.
The enemy, under General Provost, burned the
meeting-house and many of the buildings of the place.
In 1785, Rev. Abiel Holmes (a well known antiquarian, who died a few years since in Cambridge, Mass.),
was settled with them in the ministry. Ill health
made it necessary for him to relinquish his office in
1791. Rev. C. Gildersleeve, of New Jersey, succeeded
him. Rev. Murdock Murphy, a native of North
Carolina, followed. Rev. Robert Quarterman came
next, and Rev. I. S. K. Axson was settled as his colleague in 1836; but now, 1856, is President of
Greensboro' Female College. Their present pastors
(1856) are Rev. D. L. Buttolph, of New York, and
Rev. John F. Baker, of Pennsylvania.